Disney’s The Lion King will return in early 2013 to Omaha for the first time since 2005. The musical is part of the Omaha Performing Arts’ Broadway Series. The Lion King Orpheum Theatre Omaha performances will start on March 12 and continue through April 07, 2013.

Lion King’s previous engagement was successful in January 2005 where it has played a five-week sold-out run. Omaha’s most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the Orpheum Theater stage on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 for a limited four-week engagement through Sunday, April 7, 2013.

Lion King musical, is almost like the film, follows the arc of the young lion, Simba, whose wise, ruling father, Mufasa is killed by the nefarious Uncle Scar. Scar and his band of hyena followers take over the lands of Pride Rock. Based on the 1994 Disney animated film, this blockbuster opened on Broadway in October 1997 and is still playing. In its 15th year, The Lion King recently became the highest-grossing Broadway show in history.